Shadow Walkers are a strange breed that possess the ability to slip between the planes of reality, becoming immaterial. This allows them to hide in the shadows, either hunting from the concealment of near invisibility or evading enemies. Though they become corporeal to mate or to eat, they spend most of the rest of their lives walking in the shadows. Shadow Walkers are wary creatures, though on dark autumn evenings when the leaves fall to swirl in the chill, rain damp air, they may be seen drifting out from the shadows.

Dragons are highly-intelligent reptilian creatures that—from a human perspective, at least—appear to live forever. Many different varieties of dragon exist, each with their own unique qualities, habitats, and behavior. Adolescence in dragons is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. In Galsreim, dragons and humans coexist peacefully.

In a particular place, one may find the ruins of many cathedrals, all lined up one after the other, as if it was once a site of most devout worship. All the worshipers are long gone, but those who sit still among the crumbled churches may hear the strains of the sweetest songs, the most beautiful hymns playing from both nowhere and everywhere at once. While some are quick to ascribe the music to ghosts and condemn the area as haunted, others believe that the pale dragon that can sometimes be spotted pacing through the crumbled buildings is the cause, and imagine that no creature who can produce such beautiful and reverent songs would do them harm.